If somebody interested in improving their SEO skills should not read well-known SEO blogs then what does the OP suggest?
I personally follow SEOMOz and a few established SEO and link building blogs, but would be interested in hearing other suggestions.
Search Engine Marketing Incorporated
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sadly, nobody ever does.
Lots of SEO involves guess work. Google changes its algorithm constantly.
That's the reason nobody reads books on SEO. It's the same for web development.
yes
>Lots of SEO involves guess work.
no
everything is measurable, if you can't measure it, don't do it.
>on technology that changes on a monthly basis?
if you don't have a model of how SEO works, you can not improve on this model, even with new information. that books provides a - sustainable, working, applicable, employable - model.
>That's the reason nobody reads books on SEO. It's the same for web development.
... (words fail me)
Do you see something wrong with this picture? As a reader all I've got from your comment is angry guy doesn't like SEO and thinks all SEO blogging is for shit.
I apologize for being so blunt, but this is not a very useful comment. Perhaps the goal here is to establish how much you know, but even then it really fails to convince the reader. It'd been great if it had been a bit more constructive. Obviously you believe you know what you're talking about.